deogeo

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by deogeo 7y ago
> You should always be worried about giving the government - the one entity that can take away your property, liberty and life more power. In the day of company towns, your livelihood could be taken away at the whim of the company. A bus
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by deogeo 7y ago
Government regulation solved parts of it - stuff like environmental protections or labor laws. But in general, it's a very hard problem, and I don't think a theoretical solution exists yet. You can read more about it here: https:
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by deogeo 7y ago
To be fair, competition and investors tend to pressure corporations to place profit above any other values - the only way to maintain those values is to be forced by an external, 'arbitrary' force, like the law, or eccentric owner
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by deogeo 7y ago
> What law or part of the constitution says that I have a right to an unlocked phone? Maybe you'll be happier if I call it an "ability", not a "right", since I am not interested in a debate on what rights are. To
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by deogeo 7y ago
None of that conflicts with what I said.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> You’re really comparing “unlocking bootloaders” to the right for a gay couple to get married... I'm making a comparison to show you don't need the government to restrict rights - a handful of corporations that control a marke
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by deogeo 7y ago
Not as large a difference as you might hope. Replace "guns" with "phones with freely unlockable bootloaders", and "I" with "7/10 manufacturers" (made up statistics, but it's in the ballpark
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by deogeo 7y ago
We have always been at war with Eastasia, and Taco Bell has always been the only restaurant in town.
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by deogeo 7y ago
They're most likely all already dead.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> As a group, King tells us, the Boas circle championed positions that many of us now take for granted: that categories of race and gender are a product of culture, rather than biology This can be proven by applying PCA to the human geno
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by deogeo 7y ago
What you write is only true on the economic axis. E.g. attitudes towards LGBT or immigration (as measured by number of immigrants, not hot air spouted by politicians) certainly haven't moved rightward.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> I really regret not having more openness and ability to grasp these things before. Ironic - modern art has such a lack of this same openness, that the classic techniques it despises were nearly lost. It was not enough for modern art to
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by deogeo 7y ago
They say imitation is the highest form of flattery - thanks!
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by deogeo 7y ago
> By the way, while there also hasn’t been any increase in mean global temperatures during lifetimes of most of today’s high school students What a bizarre choice of time span to look at. The article was published in 2014, so I'm as
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by deogeo 7y ago
Can you imagine treating classics like this? Distributing only "localized" versions of Faust, Moby Dick, the Odyssey, or Lord of the Rings?
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by deogeo 7y ago
ZFS also protects you from data corruption, while mere backups don't - they'll happily overwrite good files with corrupt ones.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Being the victim of espionage isn't 'giving it away' - but I see you're being deliberately obtuse.
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by deogeo 7y ago
And if a Chinese airplane manufacturer out-competes a US one, causing it to fail, its workers go unemployed, weakening the US economy, and making it more dependent on China? How long does an average company last, if it gives away all its IP
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by deogeo 7y ago
Sports teams is putting things lightly. It's a bad idea to let your industries fail, while your rival's grow at your expense. You can already see what happens to those over whom China gains influence - economic power is a large pa
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by deogeo 7y ago
> undermining Subsuming is more likely.
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by deogeo 7y ago
I too remember the American worker demanding production be outsourced to China. /s Now that this has resulted in the choice to live like the Amish or buy Chinese goods, he is a hypocrite for choosing the latter. How convenient that mul
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by deogeo 7y ago
> And we are happy to have the option not to care Good for you. But those that do care have worryingly few options.
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by deogeo 7y ago
There's no need to sync every time a new phishing URL is added - only every time a URL is visited by a client. The delta can be derived just from the version number of the client's URL database, and should be a total of 1 MB in si
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by deogeo 7y ago
Can't the bad actors already check each of their sites individually by pretending to be a normal user?
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by deogeo 7y ago
Why is this getting downvoted? I'm also interested in why this approach isn't taken.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Yet another example of the risks of relinquishing control.
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by deogeo 7y ago
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action”
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by deogeo 7y ago
> she was charged with, well, not providing proof of payment. How is this not guilty until proven innocent? You have to prove you paid, otherwise you're assumed guilty.
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by deogeo 7y ago
I don't get it - the nerds were misogynistic, therefore his memory and experience are invalid?
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by deogeo 7y ago
> I can understand director Wray’s frustration. The surveillance state is growing daily, cell-phones and license plates and faces are getting increasingly tracked, and even with encryption, they'll have access to all the metadata of

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